AncestryData.com
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1. Acceptance of Terms
Welcome to AncestryData.com.
By accessing or using this website, you agree to these Terms of Use and acknowledge our Privacy Policy.
If you do not agree with these Terms, please discontinue use of the website.
2. Free, Advertising-Supported Services
AncestryData.com provides free access to selected genealogy, historical, and deceased-person information.
Our services are supported through advertising, sponsorships, affiliate programs, and other commercial relationships.
By using this website, you understand that free access is made possible in part by advertisements and commercial recommendations displayed alongside our content.
We may display advertising based on page content, general visitor interests, and other permitted advertising signals.
Any collection or use of personal information for advertising remains subject to our Privacy Policy and applicable privacy laws.
3. Informational Purposes
Information available through AncestryData.com is provided for personal, historical, genealogical, and informational purposes.
Records may contain errors, omissions, duplicate entries, outdated information, or incorrect family relationships.
We make no guarantee regarding the completeness or accuracy of individual records.
Visitors should independently verify information before relying on it for important decisions.
4. Prohibited Uses
You agree not to use information obtained through AncestryData.com to:
- Harass, threaten, stalk, or intimidate individuals.
- Commit identity theft, fraud, or impersonation.
- Engage in unlawful discrimination.
- Determine eligibility for employment, credit, housing, insurance, or other purposes regulated by the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
- Circumvent website security or access controls.
- Conduct unauthorized automated scraping or bulk harvesting.
- Republish or commercially resell substantial portions of our databases without authorization.
- Violate the privacy, intellectual property, or other legal rights of third parties.
AncestryData.com is not a consumer reporting agency and does not provide consumer reports for FCRA-regulated purposes.
5. Intellectual Property and Data Sources
Our website design, original content, software, branding, database organization, and other protected materials may be owned by or licensed to AncestryData.com.
Individual historical facts may not be subject to copyright protection, but particular compilations, images, documents, and source materials may carry legal restrictions.
Visitors are responsible for respecting applicable third-party rights.
6. Advertising and Third-Party Services
AncestryData.com may receive revenue from advertisements, sponsored placements, affiliate links, and referral partnerships.
Third-party advertisers are responsible for their own products, services, pricing, and representations.
We do not guarantee the quality, availability, or suitability of third-party offerings.
Sponsored or affiliate content will be identified where disclosure is required.
7. Record Corrections and Removal Requests
Visitors may request review of records that are inaccurate, sensitive, improperly attributed, or otherwise raise legitimate concerns.
Requests should identify the relevant record and explain the requested correction or removal.
We will evaluate requests in accordance with applicable law, source agreements, and our internal review procedures.
Removal of a record from AncestryData.com does not necessarily remove the same information from original public records, search engines, or independent third-party websites.
8. Service Availability
We may modify, suspend, discontinue, or restrict access to website features when reasonably necessary.
We do not guarantee uninterrupted access or permanent availability of any particular record.
9. Disclaimer of Warranties
To the extent permitted by law, the website and its information are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis.
We disclaim warranties not expressly provided, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement, to the extent legally permitted.
Nothing in these Terms excludes rights that cannot legally be waived.
10. Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, AncestryData.com and its operator will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages arising from use of the website.
This limitation does not apply where prohibited by law.
11. Governing Law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, subject to applicable mandatory consumer protections and conflict-of-law principles.
12. Contact
AncestryData.com
Iverson Media & Communications LLC
DBA iMedia Audiences
215 Ayer Road, #142
Harvard, MA 01451
Website: https://www.ancestrydata.com
Legal inquiries: info@ancestrydata.com